iankathYes, the early days were fun and different.
This is how I meet most of the Brits & Yanks I know, through following the public & first degree of separation timelines. I doubt I would meet you today Christian, on the firehose that is twitter, dominated with the 'look at me' and corporate culture. Today I use these connections I made back then to conect me to the more interesting folk I still have yet to meet. There are so many decent people I want to get to know and have a beer with.

ColtSeaversgood stuff.
my 2 pence worth. MySpace is needed, but it's audience are apathetic.
Speak to @markrock about how AudioBoo could help re release of social audio, a Player for the band's work, etc. Mention AMP (top secret ;))
Make sure your blog is fed with all your activity on Youtube, LastFm etc etc - allow people to obsess over your interests should they so wish.
Sign up at SoundCould.com and use the account to upload some track stems - run a remix comp. and embed the stems in your blog. Most musicians are moving from MySpace to soundcloud - Beck recently released there, Moby too. It's a good service although you are limited to 5 uploads a month - if you spoke to @dave_hayes on Twitter, I bet he'd promote the remix comp and allow free hosted audio.
Use AudioBoo to post recordings of the band both on and off stage. Allow people to routinely know what you're up to with short tweets.
Have a facebook account if only to make a Band App - and aggregate all your social media in an app that fands can add to their pages. It's dead simple to do - shout if you need help.
As AudioBoo develops, there's lots of cool stuff being released - so it will become a more and more useful tool for musicians. At http://audiobooth.net we've just started develpping full AudioBoo API integration and hope to become the premier site for musicians to aggregate all their pre-production and produced content from Soundcloud, AudioBoo and other social AudioTools. Sign up and big up your music in a Blog post - we'll promote it to the front page (we're new too so we're looking for artists to work with !)
Hope this helps,
Mark

DocumentallyThanks guys. It took a lot of questioning to get someone to agree to do it. I am glad i pushed as it was totally fascinating. I could have talked for ever but the iPhone battery dictated the time limit.

solobassstevegenius. First ever interview? stunning. Great work, disarming questions, honest, friendly. "do you know how difficult it is to sell a helicopter?" - definitely you at your very best, Mr P. xx

solobasssteveI hope Daryl puts up a hi res version of this tune somewhere - it's great to hear it, would be great to hear without all the background noise.
Geoff, you're such a star. See you soon, bro x